Feeding lionfish

[bane]

Have a volitan (around 4-5") and a dwarf zebra (<3") ...

I have tried starving them but they won't respond to me dangling frozen silverfish in front of them.

They seem to be wary of my wooden skewer.

Any help ?

Will changing the food encourage them ?

[Elune]

Try switching off the lights and just dump the fish or shrimp meat inside, watch from a distance.

[Panzz]

best you try with live freshwater glass shrimp for a star then slowly to frozen seawater food cos not very good to feed them too much of freshwater food, quite harmful to them. so those market prawns, which are from the sea! will be best for them after you get them to start eating that is. then can slowly train them to eat frozen food.

[lightbolt75]

If they are scared of ur wooden skewer, maybe u wanna try using fishing line... Tie a small knot at one end, pass the prawn or fish thru to sit on the knot. Dangle infront of the lionfish.

[PerculaClownfish]

take things slowly i can assure that the volitan will eat the frozen food but not the dwaft

[PerculaClownfish]

forgot to say, both my volitan and dwaft eats frozen mysis and brine shrimp!! so you can also try that!

[Volitan]

forgot to say, both my volitan and dwaft eats frozen mysis and brine shrimp!! so you can also try that!

Mysis may be too small for a 5" volitan. It should be able to feed on market shrimps.

PC- how did you get your dwarf to feed on mysis?

[PerculaClownfish]

I starved it for 3 days and than melted mysis shrimp in a container poured all the water away and put only the mysis in the tank...After a few small feeding the dwarf gave in and from than started eating mysis and now even brine shrimp..As for my volitan lion it eats anything including brine and mysis shrimp..Sometime it just swallows the whole cube!!

[Volitan]

I starved it for 3 days and than melted mysis shrimp in a container poured all the water away and put only the mysis in the tank...After a few small feeding the dwarf gave in and from than started eating mysis and now even brine shrimp..As for my volitan lion it eats anything including brine and mysis shrimp..Sometime it just swallows the whole cube!!

Lucky you. I starved my dwarf for almost a week, and it refused to feed on frozen. In the end, I gave up and started feeding it live.

Apparently it is not difficult to wean volitans into frozen. Anyone has successfully gotten his/her volitan to feed on pellets?

[bane]

I've starved both lionfish for almost a week ...

And they're still not eating ...the dwarf even runs away from my skewer ...

The Volitan will investigate it ...then swim off ....

Extremely fustrating ........

[PerculaClownfish]

why not you just try dropping the food in...don't use anything..

I ahve another technique..You can actually kill some shrimps and mix it togather with what you are feeding them like market prawns or market fishes..THus, it will confuse your lionfish and they may eat it!!